Bender
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Hey guys - We're still in the process of finishing our first grow room and I wanted to share the progress.
As it sits right now the room is mostly stealth and we're still far from done. We have our first run of bagseed clones flowering right now under 1200 watts of odd MH ballasts and old bulbs we scavenged over the past few months. The construction process has been a huge financial strain so we're piecing it together as we go along at this point. I will admit that I grossly underestimated how much it has cost to construct a purpose-built stealth grow room in an attic that can cope with the hostile climate. The room is heavily insulated and carefully vapor-sealed. We know exactly where the air comes in and goes out. We put up sheetrock walls and painted them with some expensive flat white primer that I can't remember the name of.
I will not be posting pictures of the entrance to the room to protect our security. I will say that we access the room from a hidden door in a walk-in closet. No ladders!!
I took pictures of the process previous to these, but they're a little too revealing.
Flower room mid construction
Looking in from the entrance. Divider is framed in the middle.
How the room looked yesterday
Ripped some magnets out of hard drives to secure the door (need to replace the broken one)
Looking at the entrance of the room (this is the veg side)
Veg/Flower divider. There will be a door here soon.
Flower room in its current condition
High-tech soil temp probe
Bender's Organic Tea Buckets bubbling away
In my opinion, this is the only acceptable fan controller on the market. The 8" Can Fan HO runs like a dream on this thing. We had the cheap router speed controller on it and it buzzed like hell. Money very well spent here folks.
http://www.variac.com/
There's an 8" HO Can Fan just behind the filter. The air ducts are heavily insulated and the fan assembly is dampened. We built a giant muffler with tons of insulation and it works great. Only thing you can hear at the exhaust port is a very faint 'whooshing' sound from the air, but you have to stick your head inside the duct to hear it!! I should also mention that the exhaust port exits the bottom of the big silver muffler to the room below. No pictures of that!
This looks like a mess but it is the start of something great I think. My partner is the brains behind the wiring and for what he had to work with I think he did great. The two 400MH ballasts on top are recovered hanging shop lights that we turned into remote ballasts. There is another 400MH ballast on the bottom shelf that was sourced by a friend. I believe its an xtrasun or something like that. None of it will matter after this grow though because we'll hopefully be upgrading ballasts, bulbs, and hoods. Expect to see 2400 watts of CMH in the future.
That should do it for now. I know I left a lot out, so if you have any questions or see any glaring flaws please let me know!
As it sits right now the room is mostly stealth and we're still far from done. We have our first run of bagseed clones flowering right now under 1200 watts of odd MH ballasts and old bulbs we scavenged over the past few months. The construction process has been a huge financial strain so we're piecing it together as we go along at this point. I will admit that I grossly underestimated how much it has cost to construct a purpose-built stealth grow room in an attic that can cope with the hostile climate. The room is heavily insulated and carefully vapor-sealed. We know exactly where the air comes in and goes out. We put up sheetrock walls and painted them with some expensive flat white primer that I can't remember the name of.
I will not be posting pictures of the entrance to the room to protect our security. I will say that we access the room from a hidden door in a walk-in closet. No ladders!!
I took pictures of the process previous to these, but they're a little too revealing.
Flower room mid construction
Looking in from the entrance. Divider is framed in the middle.
How the room looked yesterday
Ripped some magnets out of hard drives to secure the door (need to replace the broken one)
Looking at the entrance of the room (this is the veg side)
Veg/Flower divider. There will be a door here soon.
Flower room in its current condition
High-tech soil temp probe
Bender's Organic Tea Buckets bubbling away
In my opinion, this is the only acceptable fan controller on the market. The 8" Can Fan HO runs like a dream on this thing. We had the cheap router speed controller on it and it buzzed like hell. Money very well spent here folks.
http://www.variac.com/
There's an 8" HO Can Fan just behind the filter. The air ducts are heavily insulated and the fan assembly is dampened. We built a giant muffler with tons of insulation and it works great. Only thing you can hear at the exhaust port is a very faint 'whooshing' sound from the air, but you have to stick your head inside the duct to hear it!! I should also mention that the exhaust port exits the bottom of the big silver muffler to the room below. No pictures of that!
This looks like a mess but it is the start of something great I think. My partner is the brains behind the wiring and for what he had to work with I think he did great. The two 400MH ballasts on top are recovered hanging shop lights that we turned into remote ballasts. There is another 400MH ballast on the bottom shelf that was sourced by a friend. I believe its an xtrasun or something like that. None of it will matter after this grow though because we'll hopefully be upgrading ballasts, bulbs, and hoods. Expect to see 2400 watts of CMH in the future.
That should do it for now. I know I left a lot out, so if you have any questions or see any glaring flaws please let me know!
The 400's actually fit quite nice in there as the footprint available in each 'bay' is roughly 2'x3'.
hope to see some updates!
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